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Well, that's super cynical.
by LennyHenrysNuts 5y ago
Well, that's super cynical.
- bluGill 5y agoThe less cynical take is so many people abuse the system that we have put in anti abuse protection. However the end result is if you can figure out the system you are abusing it as anyone who can figure it out can get a real job and care for themselves
- maccard 5y ago> The less cynical take is so many people abuse the system that we have put in anti abuse protection. However the end result is if you can figure out the system you are abusing it as anyone who can figure it out can get a real job and care for themselves This is even more cynical, and just flat out wrong. Just because you have succesfully navigated the system doesn't matter you can hold down a permanent full time job. Also, "so many people abuse the system" is just nonsense. FullFact [0] estimates that £2bn was lost to benefit fraud in the UK, some of which is reclaimed after the fact. This is about 1% of the benefit budget, or 0.01% of the UK's budget, before any of the reclaimed amounts. [0] https://fullfact.org/online/comparing-benefit-and-tax-fraud/ https://fullfact.org/online/comparing-benefit-and-tax-fraud/
- Shared404 5y agoAnd depressingly accurate. I've seen and tried to help people who are navigating these systems, and this describes my observations each time. I live in Texas fwiw.
- p_l 5y agoUK's Conservative Party once specifically went about ordering a system so it would fail certain percentage of people, then threw Atos (the contractor) under the bus when it came out, IIRC.
- psd1 5y agoLiterally UK government policy under Theresa May: guidance notes to the home office were leaked that instruct the bureaucracy to create a "climate of hostility".
- FpUser 5y agoI'd say it is super realistic